Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	heart_n	see_v	3,500	5	3.2632	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74697	Englands slavery, or Barbados merchandize; represented in a petition to the high court of Parliament, by Marcellus Rivers and Oxenbridge Foyle gentlemen, on behalf of themselves and three-score and ten more free-born Englishmen sold (uncondemned) into slavery: together with letters written to some honourable members of Parliament.	Rivers, Marcellus.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1553; Thomason E1833_3; ESTC R209821	8,563	23

by a Iustice of Peace and yet was this good old Gentleman ravisht away with the rest of us from the bosome of the wife of his youth and from the youthfull but now unhappy Children of their aged Parents and notwithstanding his age and Innocencie for it might have been charitably lookt upon as an effect of his doteage though he should have said as dangerous words as had I wisht comes to be this aged Gentlemen was driven on shipboard the grave Matron his wife and their dutifull children Having first made application but in vain to the inexorable High Sheriff followed him with their affectionate teares and heart-breaking groans a● far as Plymouth but could never see him so much as to take leave of him but sent to him on ship-board to let him know that they were come thither to mourn with him at parting but off from the ship-board he might not pass to salute his wife and bless his children though it had been to have saved his soul and to him he forbad them to come upon his love and blessing for fear they should make him yet more miserable in being snatcht away with him thus was this ancient Gentleman thrown out of the Conversible world at best if not really into his grave then all the voyage bemoaning himself to the great grief of all the rest as a miserable man to be stolne away from his aged wife of whose constant affections he had scores of years experience and who he feared would now break her heart for grief and never be able to see her own home again In this high agony of love and grief and fear and danger above all he was troubled that he should goe out of the world leaving his poor Countrey in this slavish condition which he had so many years heretofore seen noble and free Now Sir if this be the liberty and priviledge of the subject so long promised us the people of England are in but a sad condition And if there be no redemption of us already so enslaved by a tyrannicall force for whose service our masters have nothing under our hands to shew nor have we any thing under their hands to shew whether ever or never the tearm of our slavery shall end Sir I know it cannot but grieve your righteous soul to hear of these afflictions of your Brethren if this be not redressed you know not how soon the Citizens and Commons of London whose Representative you are may likewise be carried into the like sad captivity to prevent which methinks since Petitions are voted the peoples priviledge they should petition to the Parliament if not for our freedome yet for themselves that there may an Act passe to secure them and all the free people of England from this violent spiriting least they also upon these miserable tearms should be brought into this place of torment Sir I shall pray that God will blesse you and all the great Assembly in the preservation of Englands Freedome and rest Sir Your most obliged and faithfull Servant The Copy of a third Letter written to another member of Parliament Sir THe great Report of your publick spirit and high asserting of the enslaved people of Englands freedome gives me this confidence to bemoan to you in particular and to the great counsell of the whole nation in generall the misery of my own and of the many other slaves at Barbados sad and to be pitied fate for though we have never forfeited our selves to the Law by any guilt yet notwithstanding our innocency by a strange mysterious riddle a blustering power furious as a stormy Harricane blowing from all the points of the compasse but fixed in none are we hurried to the heathenish Indies and are sold in the publick market as beasts and become to all intents and purposes like those our fellow-creatures that have no understanding being bought and sold still from master to master or attacht as their goods by the processe of their cruell creditours so that he that hath a good master too day for some such there are may have a tyrant too morrow that shall whip him at the whipping-post as a revenge on his baffling debtour Oh Sir did this glorious nation whose complacent and tender mixt with a couragious disposition was wont to make them appear lovely to all the nations of the world ever think that this would have been the English Translation of those Latine words which are as a Proclaimation throughout the earth being so eminently written in capitall Letters of gold Over the place of the displaced statue of the late King Charls upon the Royall Exchange London the intelligible center of Christendome Anno primo libertatis Angliae restitutae 1648. Sir had these men-stealers committed this horrid violence before that publication of liberty we might have had somewhat less cause to wonder at their felony though cause enough being a thing unknown before in any part of the world and which the Low-Countreys Holland and other free nations will not yet believe though we should swear it unto them Sir I beseech you therefore to be instrumentall towards the obtaining of a Committee or some other Court impowred for the hearing of the poor slaves whose Petition is already in your house that so your servant for that title I would fain exchange for slave may make all the points of their Petition appear true by the testimony of able persons upon their oaths to which purpose your Petitioner desires the Parliaments protection of his person which obtained he shall be able to make good both in substance and circumstances the saddest relation of the most unparallel'd breach upon Englands freedome that was yet ever committed since the Creation and from which flavish condition I do earnestly beg that you would use all your powers in a Parliamentary way to redeem us and to restore us once again to our pristine condition of being men and then shall I be able more properly to subscribe my self which now being not my own I do presumptuously Sir Your most humble Servant The Copy of a fourth Letter written to another Member of Parliament SIR I Beseech you accept of my thanks for your charitable and cheerfull delivering of the Slaves Petition to the grand Committee of Grievances which I hear was not onely discussed before them but the next day solemnly debated in the House Sir in this your gallant asserting of the Freedome of your Native Countrey you have shown a Mosaicall courage that dare do so much towards the relieving of the oppressed English from their more then Egyptian Taskmasters Sir you cannot but know I believe the truth of that part of the Petition which concerns the Ignoramus returned upon my Indictment the acquitment of Nicholas Broadgate by the Iury of life and death and the Innocency of all the rest of your Petitioners that were sent from Exeter for although Eight of the there condemned persons were sent and sold with us yet we have not intermix'd them within our